Bill Robinson
Birthday:
May 25, 1878 in Richmond, Virginia, USA
Birth Name:
Luther Robinson
Bill Robinson quit school at age seven and began work as a professional dancer the following year. Bojangles (the name referred to his happy-go-lucky ebullience) starred in vaudeville, musical stage and movies. He invented the stair tap routine and was considered one of the world's greatest tap dancers. His film debut was in Dixiana (1930). He...
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Bill Robinson quit school at age seven and began work as a professional dancer the following year. Bojangles (the name referred to his happy-go-lucky ebullience) starred in vaudeville, musical stage and movies. He invented the stair tap routine and was considered one of the world's greatest tap dancers. His film debut was in Dixiana (1930). He worked in fifteen movies, but his movie fame came primarily from the films he made with Shirley Temple -- Le petit colonel (1935), La petite rebelle (1935), and Mam'zelle vedette (1938). In 1989 the US Congress named his birth date as National Tap Dancing Day. Show less «
What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as ...Show more »
What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois, as on Broadway. Show less «
